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harleston were the first gay couple to apply for a marriage license
on Thursday in Kanawha County, West Virginia. In Cabell County, two
couples, Justin Murdock and William Glavaris and Casie McGee and
SarahAdkins, are credited with being the first to receive their
licenses to marry.

Lambda Legal, a national gay rights organization, filed the lawsuit in October 2013 on behalf of the three couples: Casie McGee and SarahAdkins, Justin Murdock and William Glavaris, and Nancy Michael and Jane Fenton.

The attorney general's office contends the law does not cause the plaintiffs any immediate harm. The plaintiffs are partners Casie McGee and SarahAdkins, and Justin Murdock and Will Glavaris, all of Huntington, and Nancy Michael and Jane Fenton, of St. Albans, and their son, Drew.

assist the 16 percent of Americans who have no
insurance. Whether its SarahAdkins, an underemployed 25-year-
old in Kentucky, or Barbara Kornblau, a mother in Virginia who
has been able to keep her adult daughter on her insurance, the
Supreme Courts impending ruling on the law is touching a nerve.